jcgregorio : The Geography of a Recession - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - Note that the BosWash megalopolis is least affected, also that the urban areas of the south are doing much better than the rural ones. Will this recession accelerate the depopulation of rural america?

jcgregorio : RIP Rocky Mountain News | Freedom to Tinker - """As more newspapers go out of business in the coming years, I think it's important that our sympathy for individual employees not translate into the fetishization of newsprint as a medium. And it's especially important that we n

Jeremy Zawodny : How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data: interesting approach that uses MySQL as more of a glorified column store, since writing "normal" relational queries becomes difficult. But it does scale and that's what matters.

Simon Willison : How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
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How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data. The pain of altering/ adding indexes to tables with 250 million rows was killing their ability to try out new features, so they’ve moved to storing pickled Python objects and manually creating the i